The Frontal Cortex

Evangelicals are getting worried: all their pastors are turning gay. Who's to blame? Well, some might argue that genes play a role, and that homosexuality is really a biological behavior. But that would be utterly foolish. It turns out that the real problem is soy. According to Jim Rutz, tofu turns you gay:

There's a slow poison out there that's severely damaging our children and threatening to tear apart our culture. The ironic part is, it's a "health food," one of our most popular.

The dangerous food I'm speaking of is soy. Soybean products are feminizing, and they're all over the place. You can hardly escape them anymore.

Soy is feminizing, and commonly leads to a decrease in the size of the penis, sexual confusion and homosexuality. That's why most of the medical (not socio-spiritual) blame for today's rise in homosexuality must fall upon the rise in soy formula and other soy products. (Most babies are bottle-fed during some part of their infancy, and one-fourth of them are getting soy milk!) Homosexuals often argue that their homosexuality is inborn because "I can't remember a time when I wasn't homosexual." No, homosexuality is always deviant. But now many of them can truthfully say that they can't remember a time when excess estrogen wasn't influencing them.

You can't make this shit up. What I find most interesting is that Rutz is clearly interested in some sort of scientific explanation for homosexuality. In other words, he's not arguing that it's just a sin of sexual temptation. And yet, he's completely unable to analyze the scientific facts, or construct a meaningful scientific theory. Soy does contain isoflavones, which can interfere with the action of estrogen. However, there is absolutely no evidence that isoflavones cause homosexuality, or reduce penis size, or do anything else that Rutz warns about.

PS. PZ beat me to the punch.